Data-Driven Literacy Outcomes: A District's Success Story
The Problem
Literacy Curriculum in the Waterford School District
While using a balanced literacy approach, educators in Michigan's Waterford School District were not seeing results accelerating students' foundational reading skills.
NWEA Reading Test Results SY 2019–2020:

of students at or above norms

We had just come off a re-rollout of guided reading, but it really wasn't showing solid results. We were generating a lot of data, but the interventions we were using with students weren't accelerating their foundational skills.
–Christine Cyporyn Title I Coordinator
The Solution
Implement Lexia® Core5® Reading

2018-2019 Piloted Core5 at one elementary school
2020 Fully implemented Core5 districtwide
2021 Added Core5 to the summer program
The Outcome
School District Success With Core5

Lexia® really was our gateway into Structured Literacy.
–Christine Cyporyn
Title I Coordinator
NWEA Reading Test Results SY 2022–2023:

of students at or above norms
Core5 Demonstrated Success
The Rand Study

I never dreamed that there would be acceleration support for kids like what we have now with Lexia.
–Christine Cyporyn
Title I Coordinator

See how Core5's data-driven approach benefited Michigan educators:
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